Letters

Child-abuse cases are rising everyday in our county and the United States. According to National Child Abuse Statistics www.childhelp.org/pages/statistics, five children die each day due to abuse-related deaths.
It’s time for us to take a stand against child abuse and make a difference in our community. April is Prevent Child Abuse Awareness Month and we would like for you to join us in our effort to stop child abuse from 4-5:30 p.m. April 2 and April 9 at the Lancaster County Library Meeting Room.

If anyone were to judge our area based solely on the submissions of Franklin Whittlesey Sr. that have been printed in The Lancaster News and the Carolina Gateway, they might be inclined to think Lancaster County doesn’t have two brain cells to rub together.

My name is Gianna Graffigna. I am a fifth-grader at Napa Valley Language Academy in Napa, Calif.
My class is doing state reports and I have chosen your awesome state of South Carolina. I would really appreciate if anyone would send me pamphlets, post cards, souvenirs or anything else about South Carolina.
I will be writing about South Carolina’s agriculture, history, economy, famous people, events, historical figures and national parks. Also, I will be doing an oral report poster and a PowerPoint presentation.

The need for B3 zoning revision in Indian Land is well established. The concern of established landowners that the owner of an adjacent property zoned B3 will suddenly decide to switch to a different, less desirable, but still allowed under current law use is real and immediate.
The column previously published here detailed changes to the B3 zoning classification in Indian Land that would remove most of this threat.
In summary:

I have noticed recently while watching a few funerals that a lot of people don’t pull over while the procession passes. Also, there is only a police car leading the funeral. There are none at intersections to block traffic.
This is the South and we have always shown respect for the deceased. I think everyone should, at least, take a few minutes from their busy day to pull over and show respect for the deceased.
There should be an officer at each intersection, so the funeral procession doesn’t have to stop and be held up in traffic.

I recently witnessed something that made me aware of how important it is to visit our senior citizens when they are sick at home or in a hospital.
I encourage everyone to go by and check on them, especially church members. As church members, we should go to church and worship and then go out and serve our fellow man.
Please, let’s not lose sight of what Jesus wants us to do – be Christ-like.

Many thanks to Franklin Whittlesey for his latest informational column, this one on the subject of how guns are made. I had no idea!
But I do have one idea: Mr. Whittlesey should reduce his viewing time of Fox News and perhaps switch to reading some newspapers and news magazines at the Del Webb Library so as to escape his fantasy world and get some of his facts straight.
Lawmakers are not trying to override the Second Amendment and take everyone’s guns away, only restrict

Red Ventures gets my heart rate up, and not for a good reason. Every time you see them in a newspaper article, television or on the radio, advertising for one of their big job fairs, they always say they are in Fort Mill.
There are very few residents of Indian Land or even Lancaster County working in Red Ventures. They have not found qualified applicants in our county, even after special efforts have been implemented for training classes at York Tech.
Now they want the road to their buildings named Red Ventures.

The Obama administration wants more gun restrictions. The justice department isn’t enforcing the laws that are already on the books. They say they don’t have the money, yet the president wants more laws. What he and others would like is confiscation. I hope everyone realizes, even the hunters could lose use of their guns if the Feinstein bill passes. There are so many restrictions in her bill it will make almost every rifle, some home-defense shotguns and every pistol with a removable magazine illegal.

Family Promise of Lancaster County is in its fifth year, and the generosity of the community support that makes this ministry possible never ceases to amaze me.
There are 16 host sites manned by members of 20 churches and numerous volunteers. These volunteers greet our guests, provide meals for them, stay overnight with them, and transport them to and from the Family Promise Day Center.